CRIME: Man Alone

Since the gates of Sing Sing's death house closed on him last May, no one had ever come to see Negro Isaac Richardson, 28, no one had ever written him a letter. But the State had not forgotten him, nor the murder he had committed during a holdup. Last week the warden notified him that time had come for him to die. Said Isaac Richardson: "This is a bright sunny day for some people but not for me." When he went to the electric chair, he said nothing.

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